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Harvest gold
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#E6A817
sRGB (r, g, b)	(230, 168, 23)
HSV (h, s, v)	(42°, 90%, 90%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(73, 89, 55°)
Source
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange yellow
B: Normalized to (byte)

Harvest gold is a shade of orange and yellow. The first recorded use of harvest as a color name in English was in 1923. It was popular with kitchen and other appliances during the 1970s, along with brown, burnt orange, and avocado green.

References

1. Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 196. Color Sample of Harvest: Page 47 Plate 12 Color Sample H9
2. Leatrice Eiseman; Keith Recker (2011). Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color. Chronicle Books. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-4521-1313-5.
3. Steven Bleicher (2011). Contemporary Color: Theory and Use. Cengage Learning. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-111-53891-0.
4. National Kitchen and Bath Association (2013). Kitchen Planning: Guidelines, Codes, Standards. John Wiley & Sons. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-118-36762-9. The 1970s Colors such as coppertone brown, burnt orange, avocado green, and harvest gold were all the rage.
5. Stonebach, Diane (1994). Kitchen Collectibles. Wallace-Homestead. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-87069-668-8. By 1971, the electric unit pictured was available in harvest gold, burnt orange and avocado, which were popular colors at the time.

• Shades of yellow
• 1970s fads and trends